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Science & Tech News tagged with bats

Killer Birds Bite Off Bats' Heads -Video-
Science & Tech  (tags: birds, bats, investigation, environment, discovery, research )

Daphna
- 77 days ago - newscientist.com
It sounds like the avian equivalent of an Ozzy Osbourne legend. Great tits have been discovered killing and eating bats by pecking their heads open. Although bats have been reported preying on songbirds before, this is the first time great tits
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More To Bats' Vision Than Meets The Eye
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Dee
- 120 days ago - sciencedaily.com
The eyes of nocturnal bats possess two spectral cone photoreceptor types for daylight and colour vision. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt and the University of Oldenburg have detected cones and their visual pigments..
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60 Groups Tell Congress to Work Harder For Bats
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PinkMindy
- 188 days ago - biologicaldiversity.org
The Center for Biological Diversity and 60 other national and regional organizations sent a letter today to members of Congress requesting increased funding for reseach on white-nose syndrome, a disease that has been devastating bats in the U.S.
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Bats Pick Up Rustling Sounds Against Highway Background Noise
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Ingrid
- 425 days ago - sciencedaily.com
When bats go hunting by listening for faint rustling sounds made by their quarry on a quiet night they don't have any problems. But what happens when a bat goes foraging next to a noisy highway? Can they still hear the faint sounds?
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What Is Killing the Bats of Pincher Creek?
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Elena
- 455 days ago - theglobeandmail.com
A mystery surrounding the large number of dead animals on a wind farm in Alberta prompted a groundbreaking study at the University of Calgary that found the drop in air pressure around some turbines resulted in fatal respiratory injuries
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US Bats Fall Victim to Mystery Illness
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Ingrid
- 598 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
A mystery illness that has scientists baffled is wiping out tens of thousands of bats across the north-east of the US.
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Birds Get the Credit, But Bats Eat More Bugs
Science & Tech  (tags: bats, research, insects )

Ingrid
- 601 days ago - reuters.com
Bats play a bigger role than birds do in controlling tropical insects, and the loss of bats might mean that morning cup of coffee gets more expensive
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Computers Show How Bats Classify Plants According To Their Echoes
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Ingrid
- 611 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Researchers have developed a computer algorithm that can imitate the bat's ability to classify plants using echolocation. The study represents a collaboration between machine learning scientists and biologists studying bat orientation.
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Hovering Bats Stay Aloft Using Swirling Vortices
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John
- 632 days ago - sciencedaily.com
ScienceDaily (Mar. 3, 2008) -- Honey bees and hummingbirds can hover like helicopters for minutes at a time, sucking the juice from their favorite blossoms while staying aloft in a swirl of vortices.
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Bat Takes Flight Cue From Insects
Science & Tech  (tags: science, study, interesting, bats, research )

Cathryne
- 635 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Bats use the same aerodynamic mechanism as insects to hover in one place, scientists have found. Writing in Science, they said that as the animal flapped its wings downwards, the motion created a tiny cyclone of air known as a "leading edge vortex".
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Bats Use Same Flying Trick as Insects
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Ingrid
- 636 days ago - reuters.com
Bats stay aloft by employing an aerodynamic trick previously thought unique to insects, researchers said on Thursday.
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Birds, Bats And Insects Hold Secrets For Aerospace Engineers
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Michael
- 652 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Natural flyers like birds, bats and insects outperform man-made aircraft in aerobatics and efficiency. University of Michigan engineers are studying these animals as a step toward designing flapping-wing planes with wingspans smaller than a deck of playi
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